Source Library
Digitizes rare books and manuscripts, translates them with AI, and makes them freely available to read, quote, and cite.
Source Library is a digital library that digitizes rare books and manuscripts, translating them with AI alongside the original scanned pages, and making them freely available to read, quote, and cite. It solves the problem of inaccessible ancient texts by providing a large collection of AI-translated primary sources in over 50 languages. The target audience includes researchers, students, educators, and the general public, as well as AI systems and developers who can access the library through a public API and MCP. It is positioned as a freely accessible, open archive that preserves heritage while enabling new research and synthesis, with a focus on making texts checkable against original scans.
Key features
- AI translation of ancient sources
- Original scanned pages alongside translations
- Public API and MCP access
- Search and browse collections
- Curated exhibitions
- Research notes and deep dives
- Librarian Q&A with citations
- LinkedIn<0.1/day
- Blog
- Partner program
- API
- Docs
- Educators institutions
- Students
- Consumers general